Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Short

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

Dan Brown

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

Constantin Stanislavski

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Damien Rice

Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, so it's not hard to fall when you flow like a cannonball

Andy Warhol

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Ang Lee

I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

Anais Nin

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.

Anais Nin

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

Amanda Seyfried

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.

Ally Condie

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

Anne Lamott

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Afrika Bambaataa

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Richard Krajicek

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

The deal breaker so far is his insistence on keeping the ball.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

Alexander Lukashenko

I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Alexander McQueen

You've got to know the rules to break them.

E. M. Forster

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Drew Curtis

We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

Drew Barrymore

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

Don DeLillo

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

Dudley Nichols

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

Dorothy Dix

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Donald Miller

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

Don Henley

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Dalai Lama

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.

Dinaw Mengestu

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

David Whyte

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Clarence Thomas

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clement Freud

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

Dane Cook

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.